ABSTRAKReaksi dan persepsi orangtua terhadap ketunaan anaknya mempengaruhi cara mereka merawat dan berdampak pada tingkat perkembangan dan kemandirian self care anak. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh Terapi Kelompok Suportif terhadap kemampuan orangtua dalam melatih self care anak tunanetra ganda di SLB G Rawinala Jakarta Timur. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah quasi experiment pre-post test with control group dengan 51 responden, terdiri dari 26 responden untuk kelompok intervensi dan 25 responden untuk kelompok kontrol. Terapi ini adalah terapi mutual support, diberikan dalam 4 sessi dan dilakukan selama 6 minggu. Kemampuan kognitif, afektif dan psikomotor orangtua dianalisis menggunakan uji T test, Chi ? Square dan Regresi Linear sederhana. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan peningkatan kemampuan orangtua secara bermakna setelah diberikan terapi pada kelompok intervensi.

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Perception and reaction of parents towards their children?s disability including MDVI, affects how to care and had effect to the child independent self care and development level. The purpose of this research is influence of Group Supportive Therapy to family ability train of MDVI child self care of SLB G Rawinala, east Jakarta. Design of this research was using ?Quasi experiment by using pre-post test with control group? on 51 samples. The consist of samples to 26 peoples for intervension group and 25 peoples for control group.This therapy is the mutual support group , the treatment has been done almost 6 weeks for 4 session. The parents?s cognitive, affective, and psychomotor ability are valued by using quistioner and then the results of quesioners are analyzed by using T-test. Chi-Square, and Simple Linear Reggresion method. The parents ability of the group that treated by group supportive therapy were increase highly and significantly.